Age: 37
Sex: male
Date: 5 Dec 1930
Place: 23 Oliver Street, South Moor, County Durham
Charles Benfold was found dead from head injuries caused by axe blows on 6 December 1930. He was murdered while asleep. His wife was tried for his murder but acquitted.
The prosecution had said that she had bashed his head in with an axe while he had been asleep after she had become jealous about his associations with other women.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 16 February 1931
see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Saturday 27 June 1931
see The Scotsman - Monday 29 June 1931
see Sheffield Independent - Wednesday 18 February 1931
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Friday 20 February 1931
see Lancashire Evening Post - Wednesday 21 January 1931
see The Scotsman - Saturday 03 January 1931
see Shields Daily News - Thursday 19 February 1931
see National Archives - ASSI 45/91/4
see Unsolved 1930
